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Originally Posted by TanMan
This is the first time I have seen the words "intimidated" and "Mai Thai Bar" in the same sentence. .
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That's funny, because it was on my 3rd tour, at Songkran, that I first set foot in MTB. It was crowded, but I got a stool and bought a beer for a pretty lady. It turned out that she was married to a Swiss gent, and was just at the bar to get out the house, have a drink with the girls, and in no way looking for action. Everyone else there ignored me. I had only found phuketinfo two weeks before, at a time when I had sadly written off the possibility of a trip to LOS that year. But reading all the posts got me so fired up, that when suddenly I caught a break financially, I said, "**** it all," asked my clients if they could do without me for 3 weeks and then booked a trip for 5 weeks, figuring that after 3 weeks I could email them that I was delayed a week, and then squeeze in a week beyond that. I was nervous about doing that, but oddly enough, when I got back and called my biggest account, he said, "What? Back already? It seems like you've just left."
So, feeling the odd man out(IOW, intimidated) that night at MTB, I wandered down to Black Magic bar, a few stalls away, met a girl there, and spent the rest of my stay in Patong, drinking at Black Magic with her.
By the time I returned to MTB, 8 months later, after the tsunami, I had become relatively well acquainted with many of the BMs, and received a warm welcome. The tour that followed was a classic, 3 months spent in Patong, never got out of there, and I will never forget it, either! Met some great guys that trip!!